Blaze and Radice's Developing Professional Skills: Criminal Law

Product Details

Author(s)

Imprint
West Academic Publishing

ISBN-13
9780314279804

Edition
1

Copyright
2017

Series
Developing Professional Skill

Description

This creative and original book provides ten independent exercises designed to help students master Criminal Law through real legal problems. Working with these exercises, students will tackle difficult criminal law questions to increase their understanding of the course topics while simultaneously developing skills in client interviewing and counseling, legal drafting, negotiation, and advocacy. These exercises also make it easier to integrate skills training into a traditional criminal law course.

Each exercise is based on fundamental criminal law concepts so that the book can supplement any criminal law casebook. Students learn criminal law doctrine through problems requiring them to:

Negotiate a plea agreement about an appropriate sentence

Interview and counsel clients about their charges

Write an email to a supervising prosecutor

Prepare a defense letter to a prosecutor countering a plea offer

Draft an amendment to a criminal statute

Make a closing argument

The book also provides a brief overview and tips for effective interviewing, negotiation, and counseling to help students begin the process of mastering the relevant skills. And it situates the lawyering exercises in the context of related professional responsibility rules.